On Tuesday 22 July 2003 18:43, Erik S. Johansen wrote: > In my experience, Samba is not a good choice for anything resembling > heavy load, mostly due to the resources required to simulate filesystem > features that are native to Windows. I've had serious load and > response-time problems in a 20-user setting with a few 100 GB of data > shared through samba, most of these came from the continous directory > rescanning Samba need to do in order to provide file-change notification > to connected clients.
If Samba had support for imon (fam) then it wouldn't need to rescan for file changes. However, from a post I just ran across, it looks like it isn't feasible. ----- Subject: file change notification issues Newsgroups: mailing.unix.samba-technical Date: 2003-01-23 07:56:58 PST http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Samba+FAM+Support&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&as_qdr=all&selm=b0p3bt%248hn%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
